As of 2025, I’ve been exploring the question of what insights from theoretical linguistics can be applied in pre-university classrooms, to strengthen language pedagogy — a line of work that is relatively underexplored in both linguistics and education spaces. Below are some output of mine in pursuing this line of work.
- An informational guide for teachers that introduces ideas for bringing linguistics into the classroom, along with justifications thereof.
- A lesson on the linguistics of word-level stress, delivered to a 7th-grade English class to supplement instruction on poetry. Special thanks to Beth Keyser for this opportunity.
- A set of introductory linguistics crashcourse materials, taught to high school students at MIT Splash 2025 and Harvard HWeek 2025, with the latter having a Mandarin-English bilingual component.
The above is from an English lesson I taught in 2025 at Shinkaie Elementary School (新開國小) in Miaoli, Taiwan. In this lesson, I superimposed a pitch contour (visualization of change in one's pitch) above sentences in question-answer pairs, and had students practice these together as dialogues, to build students' understanding of English intonation. See here for related local news coverage of my volunteering in rural Taiwan.